Your firm, which produces a variety of gourmet jams, is hoping to expand. Three options exist. The first is to acquire a fruit farm, the second is to buy out the operations of a firm producing orange marmalade, and the third is to acquire a company producing ready-to-serve gourmet fruit smoothies (found in your grocer's refrigerated section). These options would be classified as __________, __________, and __________, respectively.

	a.	backward integration; forward integration; a conglomerate merger
	b.	forward integration; a product extension merger; a horizontal merger
	c.	backward integration; a horizontal merger; a product extension merger
	d.	a horizontal merger; a product extension merger; forward integration
	e.	vertical integration; a conglomerate merger; a horizontal merger